Magazine-box for photographic films.



PATENTED OUT. 2, 1906.

J. GARPENTIER. MAGAZINE BOX FOR PHOTOGRAPHIG FILMS.

APPLICATION FILED JUL-Y8, 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MAGAZINE-BOX FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC FILMS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

7, Patented Oct. 2, 1906.

Application filed July 8, 1905. Serial No. 268,893.

To all whmn it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JULEs OARPENTIER, a

I citizen of the Republic of France, residing in Paris, France, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Magazine-Boxes for Photographic Films, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object a magazine-box containing sensitized films used in photography, which box is placed immediately at the back of a camera like a magazine and permits of changing the films, together with another similar box or receiver arranged back to back with the magazine-box and which takes the exposed films as they are used.

The accompanying drawings show by way of example this magazine-box, the characteristics of which will be fully explained in the following specification.

Figures 1 and 2 are respectively a longitudinal section and a sectional plan view of a receiver-box. Fig. 3 is a section thereof on line A B of Fig; 1. Fig. 4 is a section on line C D. Fig. 5 is a plan of a portion of the paper band supporting the film. Fig. 6 shows two superposed magazines placed in the sheath of the photographic apparatus, the lower box serving as a receiver for the exposed films.

The changing-box A, inside which are placed two magazine-boxes, one being full and the other empty, is open at one end and closed at the other by a suitable movable door a. It is provided at its upper part with an opening through which the film is exposed and with two cross-bars b 1), against which the magazine containing the films abuts. The sides of the box have stops 0 0 near the door a, which serve to keep the filmboxes inside the sheath.

The magazine used consists of a card-box B, having in its top an opening d, corresponding with the surface to be exposed. On the bottom of the box B are fixed one or more springs e for pushing the plate f, whereon is the pile of films 1), toward the open top, each film being supported by a paper band 1. The magazine-box, which when empty may be used as a receiver for the exposed films, has an opening or slot y made in the wall opposite the opening :0 only sufficiently wide to permit the passage of the extended narrow portion of the band or bands of paper 9", to which the films are attached. This opening the box.

y may be made light-tight by a band y, of velvet; but this is not essential.

The ends of the films may be gummed together, so as to ease their introduction into They may also be fastened together by a metallic clamp in case gum is not desirable.

The two small sides of the magazine-box are formed at one end by a little piece of wood j and at the other end by the piece of wood 2, having the groove or opening y. This box is provided near the piece with two screw heads or projections to, which engage the stops 0, and so limit'the movement of the magazines inside the sheath of the photographic apparatus.

In order to use an empty magazine as a receiver for the films as they are exposed, the operator proceeds as follows: A magazinebox full of films, together with an empty magazine, are placed back to back, and the protruding ends of the paper bands 1", supporting the films, are passed into the empty magazine through the opening 00. It is necessary to press back the false bottom f, which urges forward the films when the magazine is full, or else the ends of the bands 1 would encounter the said bottom and be prevented from advancing. The p aper bands 7 are then pulled and passed through the opening y, and the ends that are fastened together may now be cut by scissors or other convenient means to free them from each other, so that each band 0" can be pulledseparately. The full and empty magazines are now placed together in the frame or sheath or change-box A of the camera, the former being placed face to the lens. The door a of the sheath is then shut, and the apparatus is ready for use. The box shown is for taking stereoscopic views and has therefore a pair of separated openings in its face, as is indicated in Fig. 6. When it is desired to expose the first film, the said film must be uncovered, as

it is protected by a loose sheet of black paper 1" of the same shape as the band or strip 1'. (Shown in Fig. 5.) To this end the operator pulls the end of the first paper which protrudes through the opening 1; of the lower box until the larger part abuts against the sides of the piece 2, which limits the width of the opening y. In consequence the band of the black paper which covered the non-exposed film enters the empty box and closes the opening (1 in said box. When the first suffices to separate the boxes from each other, and after having taken out the exposed films the magazine-boxes are replaced, as aforesaid.

The films; may be attached to the wide ends of the paper bands 1' by means of gummed wafers, as indicated in Fig. 5, or by anyoth'er suitable means. Having now particularly described and ascertained my invention and in what manner it is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is 1. The combination with a combined band and film having a stop at one end of the film, of a' box having an open face for exposing said film and having atone end a slotthrough which the full-length of'said combined band and film may pass, and at the other end a slot throughwhich said stopand consequently the film'cannot pass.

2. The combination with a combinedbandand film having a shoulder at one end of the film, of a box having an open face for exposing said film and-having at one end a slot and a similarexposing-box in which said.

films are carried, havinganopenface for exposing said films and having at one end a slot large enough'to pass the wider portions of said bands, and-at the other end a-shorter slot passing only thenarrowerportions of said-bands, said narrower portions projecting out ofthe'larger slot of saidbox, whereby they may be used to draw the films through I the larger slot of the storage-boxhbut not through such storage-box, i

4. The combination of a frame, and two separate boxes, one an exposing-box havin -an open face forexposing films therein, an

' 5. The combination ofa frame, and two I separate boxes, onean exposing-box-having an open face for exposing films therein; and the =other a storage-box, said boxes having passages in their ends and adapted to be carried in said'frame'with said passages close together, so that the films after-exposure in-=7o one box may-betransferredto the-otherbox, and stops insaidframe for determining the positions of said boxes therein.

6. The combination of a frame, and twoidentical separate boxes-having open faces for exposing films thereinand having passages in their ends and adapted to be carried back to back-in said frame with said passages close together so thatthe films after exposure in one boxmay-b'e transferred to theother box.

7. The combination of a frame, and -twoseparate boxes, one anexposing-boxhavin anopen face for exposing films therein, an the other a storage-box,- said boxes having passages in their ends and adaptedto becarried in said frame with said passages closetogether,-so that the films afterexposure in one box -maybe transferred to I the otherbox, said frame being open atone endto provide access for transferring saidfilms,stops in-said frame and on said boxes for determining'theposition of the boxes therein, and'a door attheendv of the frame for-permitting inspectionand access to thecorresponding ends of said boxes and for holding theminqplacewith their stops-engaging the stops-of theframe.

In witness whereof I have hereuntosigned' my name in the witnesses.

JULEs OARPENTIER... Witnesses:

MAROEL ARM'ENGAUD, Jeune, HANSON C.OoxE.

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